Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Addup has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners. Despite having multiple examiners, both actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's current filings. This allows for a comparison of how different examiners handle similar subject matter within the same technical group.
Sorkin, David L is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending actions and two distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for one action. This arrangement means the company is dealing with two different individuals within the same art unit, which can provide insight into the consistency of review within that specific technical group. Practitioners should monitor the distinct approaches of these examiners to identify any variations in prosecution style.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| SORKIN, DAVID L | 1 | 67.4% | +12.8% |
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 1 | 61.6% | +19.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687976 | Continuous Mixing Device And Related Method | SORKIN, DAVID L | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17924594 | METHOD FOR THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE OF AN OBJECT FROM A POWDER LAYER | HEVEY, JOHN A | 83d |
| 18687976 | Continuous Mixing Device And Related Method | SORKIN, DAVID L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18687976 | Continuous Mixing Device And Related Method | SORKIN, DAVID L | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 17924594 | METHOD FOR THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE OF AN OBJECT FROM A POWDER LAYER | HEVEY, JOHN A | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
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